Anna Wickham

“For I am sick of duties, A household's trivial round, Wherein no high adventure, No ecstasy is found.”

“It is a great thing to be a woman, when a woman is a great thing.”

“I have to thank God I'm a woman, for in these ordered days a woman only is free to be very hungry, very lonely, very messy, very silly, very angry, very sad, very everything.”

“If I had a lover who was a tall man, I would not be in awe of him, I would be a person to his person.”

“God, thou great symmetry, Who put a biting lust in me From whence my sorrows spring, For all the frittered days That I have spent in shapeless ways, Give me one perfect thing.”

“Let us thank God for the plague of women, that they are not all of one kind.”

“My mind is a flooded country, where the dykes of my reason have broken.”

“I was a rebel from my birth, I am a rebel till I die.”

“Because of your love I have come to be, A mighty woman, a proud and free.”

“I am the wife of a man of God, I am the mother of his son; And I have no right to a separate thought, Or a life of my own, not one.”

“The flesh is a good thing; But the flesh is a sad thing.”

“I must have my own house, my own garden and my own liberty.”